H. A. Kelly was a scholar who wrote extensively on the topics of the Devil, demonology, and witchcraft from the 1960s through the 2010s. Over his career he authored or contributed to 21 works examining the development of Christian beliefs about evil spirits and how those beliefs changed over time, including books, articles, and book reviews. Some of his most notable works explored the evolution of beliefs about the Eden serpent, depictions of the Devil in medieval rituals and dramas, and the growth and decline of Christian demonology.
H. A. Kelly was a scholar who wrote extensively on the topics of the Devil, demonology, and witchcraft from the 1960s through the 2010s. Over his career he authored or contributed to 21 works examining the development of Christian beliefs about evil spirits and how those beliefs changed over time, including books, articles, and book reviews. Some of his most notable works explored the evolution of beliefs about the Eden serpent, depictions of the Devil in medieval rituals and dramas, and the growth and decline of Christian demonology.
H. A. Kelly was a scholar who wrote extensively on the topics of the Devil, demonology, and witchcraft from the 1960s through the 2010s. Over his career he authored or contributed to 21 works examining the development of Christian beliefs about evil spirits and how those beliefs changed over time, including books, articles, and book reviews. Some of his most notable works explored the evolution of beliefs about the Eden serpent, depictions of the Devil in medieval rituals and dramas, and the growth and decline of Christian demonology.
1. "The Devil in the Desert," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 26 (l964) l90-220. 2. "Demonology and Diabolical Temptation," Thought 40 (l965) l65-l94. Condensed in Theology Digest l4 (l966) 131-36 3. a. The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft: The Development of Christian Beliefs in Evil Spirits. New York: Doubleday, l968. b. Towards the Death of Satan: The Growth and Decline of Christian Demonology. London, Dublin, and Melbourne: Geoffrey Chapman, l968. c. La morte di Satana: Sviluppo e declino della demonologia cristiana. Trans. Lucia Pigni Maccia. La Ricerca religiosa: Studi e testi, no. 8. Milan: Bompiani, l969. d. The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft. Revised Edition. New York: Doubleday, l974. e. Le diable et ses démons: La démonologie chrétienne hier et aujourd'hui. Trans. Maurice Galiano. Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, l977. f. The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft, rev. ed. (1974) reprinted with new Appendix: English translation of "Teufel" (no. 16 below): Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2004. 4. Review of Birger Gerhardsson, The Testing of God's Son (Matt. 4.1-11 & Par.): An Analysis of an Early Christian Midrash (Lund l966), Theological Studies 29 (1968) 528-531. 5. "Death of the Devil?" Commonweal 93.6 (6 November l970) 146-l49. 6. "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance," Viator 2 (l97l) 30l-327. 7. Review of Anges et démons, Points cardinaux 21 (Paris l972), Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 17 (l974) 39l-392 8. "English Kings and the Fear of Sorcery," Mediaeval Studies 39 (1977) 206-238. Reprinted in Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001, chapter 7. 9. Review of J. B. Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca l98l), Journal of Religious History l2 (l983) 33l-333. 10. The Devil at Baptism: Ritual, Theology, and Drama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l985. Reprint, Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2004. 11. Review of Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles, Tr. John and Anne Tedeschi (Baltimore l983). Cithara, 24.2 (May l985) 6l-63. 12. "The Devil at Large," Journal of Religion 67 (1987) 519-528: Review of J. B. Russell, The Devil (1977), Satan(1981), Lucifer (1984), Mephistopheles (1986). 13. Review of Neil Forsyth, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton 1987), Journal of American Folklore 102 (1989) 107-110. 14. "Satan the Old Enemy: A Cosmic J. Edgar Hoover," Journal of American Folklore 103 (1990).77-84 (Response to Forsyth's reply). 15. Review of C. W. Marx, The Devil's Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England (1995), in Speculum 72 (1997) 859-61. 16. "Teufel, V: Kirchengeschichtlich" ("The Devil," part 5: "In Church History"), TRE (Theologische Realenzyklopädie) 33.1/2 (2001) 124-34. English translation in no. 3 (f) above. English translation 17. Satan: A Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 18. Review of Malleus maleficarum, ed. and tr. Christopher S. Mackay, 2 vols. (2006), Review of English Studies 59 (2008) 457-59. 19. Review of Alain Boureau, Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West (2006), in History of Religions 49 (2009) 88-92. 20. "Hell with Purgatory and Two Limbos: The Geography and Theology of the Underworld," Chapter 9 of Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Margaret Toscano and Isabel Moreira (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 121-36. 21. "Common and Special Purgatories, Authorized Revenge, and Hamlet's Ghost" (50 pages), Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History n.s., 10 (2013).